URL Conventions

Web Services use different values for the URLs that return data from the applications. These values are entered when creating a REST connector and when creating an extract object. The REST Connector requires the following syntax for URLs:

HTTP | HTTPS://<Endpoint>/<Resource>?<Query>

• The protocol is either HTTP or HTTPS.
• Endpoint: Root URL of the Web Service used to retrieve data.
• Resource: Path that identifies particular data to be returned.
• Query: URL parameters consisting of name/value pairs separated by ampersands (&).

Example URLs:

• https://community.jivesoftware.com/api/core/v3/people?count=100&startIndex=1
• http://services.odata.org/V4/Northwind/Northwind.svc/Customers
• http://jenkins.birst.cc/api/json?depth=1